Adam Green (neuroscientist)

Green joined the faculty of Georgetown University in 2010 as assistant professor of Psychology and was promoted to associate professor in 2017, serving as the university's Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor from 2020 to 2023. He became Professor of Psychology in 2023.^[2] Green is also affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at the Georgetown University Medical Center.^[3]

Green is a founder of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity, where he served as president from 2019 to 2021 and has been a member of the executive committee since 2015.^[4] In 2022, he became Editor-in-Chief of the Creativity Research Journal, having previously been Senior Associate Editor.^[5]

Green's research examines the cognitive and neural mechanisms of creativity and reasoning. His work integrates behavioral and neuroimaging methods to study how the brain supports creative thought and analogical reasoning.^[6]

At Georgetown, Green teaches courses on neurophilosophy and cognitive neuroscience, exploring how philosophical questions about human thought can be addressed through brain-based research.^[7]

One focus of Green's work is the study of "semantic distance," a measure of conceptual similarity used to quantify creativity in reasoning.^[8][9] His studies have explored how creative thinking can vary as a dynamic state, rather than a fixed trait, and how neural activity in the frontopolar cortex supports conscious augmentation of creative thought.^{[10][11][12][13]}

Green has also studied "creativity anxiety," a form of anxiety that arises when people are asked to generate creative ideas.^[14][15]